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Mardi Gras gives way to Lent on Ash Wednesday

Clean up crews will work into the coming days to remove trash and garbage from around the city following Carnival

Mardi Gras gives way to Lent on Ash Wednesday

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Updated: 9:18 AM CST Feb 13, 2013

NEW ORLEANS —

The glitz and glamour of Mardi Gras has ended, with thousands of costumed revelers preparing to give up the Carnival season's celebrations for the start of Lent on Wednesday.

Churches around largely Catholic south Louisiana scheduled Masses at which priests would dot or cross the foreheads of the faithful with ash to mark the beginning of the 40-day season of penitence and fasting.